Neon lights must inspire a compulsive expression of love, of saying yes, of baring it all. Three female artists – Tracy Emin, Olivia Steel, and Slyvie Fleury, all turn to the medium to communicate their obsessions. If you’re going to give in, you might as well do it on big, bright, glowing letters of liquid light.

Olivia Steel – Thinking Of You (AnotherLoves)

Sylvie Fleury – Yes To All

Tracy Emin – Sometimes I Think, Sometimes I Don’t

Slyvie Fleury – Moisturizing is the Answer (Marisalw Instragram)

Tracy Emin – I Woke Up Wanting to Kiss You

Olivia Steel – Lets Go Get Lost

Tracy Emin – Times Square Installation

Tracy Emin – I Felt You and I Know You Loved Me – Cathedral Installation

Summer feels so far off with this cold weather and reminiscing of summer days gone by warms me right up. Below are some photos I took last summer in Montreal for Osheaga and on a rainy day in Soho with Parissa.

I am going to begin by saying that the above video may not be very funny to anyone other than the five of us who appear in it.

This silly video, created by my friend Myles, documents a mini road trip we took last weekend to the Catskills with Conor, Myles, Adam, Clara and myself. We rented an itty bitty little cabin (discovered by Adam and Clara) with a wood burning stove and a small loft. Basically the weekend revolved around eating, drinking and playing the board game Settlers of Catan with one late-night visit to a very divey strip club (it was the closest thing to the cabin OK?).

In September, we escaped Manhattan and Brooklyn and drove to the Catskills to go camping. The mountains looked like they were covered in little autumn-colored pom poms. We went for walks, cooked, played card games, drank (a lot) and even managed to make it to a garlic festival.

This past weekend Marisa, Emily, Alex and I took the train out to Montauk. We drank wine and did our makeup en route before going out for the night. The next morning at our hotel we made fresh coffee and sat on the front porch overlooking the lake. We rented bikes and rode into town where we stopped for brunch and checked out Cynthia Rowley’s beautiful pop-up store and the Momofuku Milk Bar out back.

It was an overcast Saturday so we spent our time drinking iced coffees, dipping our toes in the ocean, and suckling on ginger vodka lemonades from the Surf Lodge. We snacked on brie, Rosé, and pickles next to a simmering fire. We ate a delicious dinner of fresh kale salad, lemon pasta, seasoned chickpeas, beets and goat cheese. We lay on white lawn chairs under fairy lights down by the lake. And the next day was sunny enough for us to get sunburns on our noses, calves, ankles, and knees.

What can I say, I am very obsessed with my new RSD Collective Nu Jork Apple Rumble Sweatshirt. It’s just so funky! When I wear it out in New York, I keep catching people looking at it inquisitively, trying to figure out what it says and then smiling gleefully or sometimes frowning at the non-traditional spelling.

Today, I wore it to the Frieze Art Fair on Randall’s Island, and I kept asking my dad if I had something on my face because people just kept staring. To be fair, I had just demolished a Mast Brother’s chocolate bar.

Anyways, RSD Collective is made up of a team of four long-time friends known as the Naughty Nomads. The team hails from Yorkshire, England and just launched the brand on March 14th, 2012 - you can purchase everything online on their website. My sweatshirt retails for about $65 and the t-shirt goes for about $48. I enjoy pairing the sweatshirt with collared shirts, vintage jeans, and sneakers.

Oh man, I wish I had moves like that. Caroline Polachek credits Bolero by Maurice Bejart as inspiration for her choreography. Looks like a fitness PSA from some post-apocalyptic dystopian world. I dig. Probably because I’ve been on a bit of a dance kick lately, after Wim Wenders’ Pina blew my mind the fuck away.